Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

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Title: Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett
With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
Author: Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, and Tobias
Smollett
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THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
JOHNSON, PARNELL, GRAY,
AND
SMOLLETT.

With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and
Explanatory Notes
BY THE
REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.
EDINBURGH
M.DCCC.LV.
CONTENTS.
JOHNSON'S POEMS.
The Life of Samuel Johnson
London: a Poem in imitation of the
Third Satire of Juvenal, 1738 The Vanity of Human Wishes. In
imitation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal
PROLOGUES:--
Prologue Spoken by Mr Garrick, at the Opening of
the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, 1747
Prologue Spoken by Mr
Garrick before the 'Masque of Comus', acted for the benefit of Milton's
Grand-daughter
Prologue to Goldsmith's Comedy of 'The
Good-Natured Man', 1769 Prologue to the Comedy of 'A Word to the
Wise,' spoken by Mr Hull
ODES:--
Spring
Midsummer
Autumn
Winter
MISCELLANEOUS:--
The Winter's Walk
To Miss ***** on her
giving the Author a Gold and Silk Network Purse of her own Weaving

Epigram on George II. and Colley Cibber, Esq.
Stella in Mourning

To Stella
Verses Written at the Request of a Gentleman to whom a
Lady had given a Sprig of Myrtle
To Lady Firebrace, at Bury Assizes

To Lycè, an Elderly Lady
On the Death of Mr Robert Levett, a
Practiser in Physic
Epitaph on Claude Phillips, an Itinerant Musician

Epitaph on Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart.
On the Death of Stephen
Grey, F.R.S., the Electrician
To Miss Hickman, Playing on the
Spinnet
Paraphrase of Proverbs, chap. iv. verses 6-11
Horace, Lib.
iv. Ode vii. Translated
On Seeing a Bust of Mrs Montague

Anacreon, Ode Ninth
Lines Written in Ridicule of certain Poems
published in 1777 Parody of a Translation from the 'Medea' of

Euripides
Burlesque on the Modern Versification of Ancient
Legendary Tales: an Impromptu
Epitaph for Mr Hogarth

Translation of the Two First Stanzas of the Song 'Rio Verde, Rio
Verde', printed in Bishop Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry':
an Impromptu
To Mrs Thrale, on her Completing her Thirty-Fifth
Year: a Impromptu
Impromptu Translation of an Air in the 'Clemenza
de Tito' of Metastasia, beginning 'Deh! se Piacermi Vuoi'
Lines
Written under a Print representing Persons Skaiting Translation of a
Speech of Aquileio in the 'Adriano' of Metastasio, beginning, 'Tu Che
in Corte Invecchiasti'
Impromptu on Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting
with a Friend about a Gown and Hat she was inclined to Wear

Translation of Virgil, Pastoral I
Translation of Horace, Book i. Ode
xxii.
Translation of Horace, Book ii. Ode ix.
Translation of part of
the Dialogue between Hector and
Andromache.--From the Sixth
Book of Homer's Iliad
To Miss * * * * on her Playing upon a
Harpsichord in a Room hung with Flower-Pieces of her own Painting

Evening: an Ode. To Stella
To the Same
To a Friend
To a Young
Lady, on her Birthday
Epilogue intended to have been Spoken by a
Lady who was to personate 'The Ghost of Hermione'
The Young
Author
Friendship: an Ode. Printed in the Gentleman's Magazine,
1743 Imitation of the Style of Percy
One and Twenty
PARNELL'S POEMS.
The Life and Poetry of Thomas Parnell
Hesiod; or, the Rise of
Woman
Song
Song
Song
Anacreontic
Anacreontic
A Fairy
Tale, in the Ancient English Style
To Mr Pope
Health: an Eclogue

The Flies: an Eclogue
An Elegy to an Old Beauty
The
Book-Worm
An Allegory on Man
An Imitation of some French
Verses
A Night-Piece on Death
A Hymn to Contentment
The
Hermit
GRAY'S POEMS.
The Life and Poetry of Thomas Gray

ODES:--
I. On the Spring
II. On the Death of a Favorite Cat
III.
On a distant Prospect of Eton College
IV. To Adversity
V. The
Progress of Poesy
VI. The Bard
VII. The Fatal Sisters
VIII. The
Descent of Odin
IX. The Death of Hoel
X. The Triumph of Owen

XI. For Music
MISCELLANEOUS:--
A Long Story
Elegy written in a Country
Churchyard
Epitaph on Mrs Jane Clarke
Stanzas, suggested by a
View of the Seat and Ruins at Kingsgate, in Kent, 1766
Translation
from Statius
Gray on himself
SMOLLETT'S POEMS.
The Life of Tobias Smollett
Advice: a Satire
Reproof: a Satire

The Tears of Scotland. Written in the year 1746
Verses on a Young
Lady playing on a Harpsichord and Singing Love Elegy, in imitation of
Tibullus
Burlesque Ode
Ode to Mirth
Ode to Sleep
Ode to
Leven Water
Ode to Blue-Eyed Ann
Ode to Independence
Songs
THE POETICAL WORKS
OF
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
We feel considerable trepidation in beginning a life of Johnson, not so
much on account of the magnitude of the man--for in Milton, and one
or two others, we have already met his match--but on account of the
fact that the field has been so thoroughly exhausted by former writers.
It is